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Title: The Young Engineers in Colorado

Author: H. Irving Hancock

Release Date: June 25, 2004 [eBook #12734]

Language: English

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The Young Engineers in Colorado

or, At Railwood Building in Earnest

By H. Irving Hancock

CONTENTS

CHAPTERS
I. The Cub Engineers Reach Camp
II. Bad Pete Becomes Worse
III. The Day of Real Work Dawns
IV. "Trying Out" the Gridley Boys
V. Tom Doesn't Mind "Artillery"
VI. The Bite from the Bush
VII. What a Squaw Knew
VIII. 'Gene Black, Trouble-Maker
IX. "Doctored" Field Notes?
X. Things Begin to go Down Hill
XI. The Chief Totters from Command
XII. From Cub to Acting Chief
XIII. Black Turns Other Colors
XIV. Bad Pete Mixes in Some
XV. Black's Plot Opens With a Bang
XVI. Shut Off from the World
XVII. The Real Attack Begins
XVIII. When the Camp Grew Warm
XIX. Sheriff Grease Drops Dave
XX. Mr. Newnham Drops a Bomb
XXI. The Trap at the Finish
XXII. "Can Your Road Save Its Charter Now?"
XXIII. Black's Trump Card
XXIV. Conclusion

CHAPTER I

THE CUB ENGINEERS REACH CAMP

"Look, Tom! There is a real westerner!" Harry Hazelton's eyes
sparkled, his whole manner was one of intense interest.

"Eh?" queried Tom Reade, turning around from his distant view
of a sharp, towering peak of the Rockies.

"There's the real thing in the way of a westerner," Harry Hazelton
insisted in a voice in which there was some awe.

"I don't believe he is," retorted Tom skeptically.

"You're going to say, I suppose, that the man is just some freak
escaped from the pages of a dime novel?" demanded Harry.

"No; he looks more like a hostler on a leave of absence from a
stranded Wild West show," Tom replied slowly.

There was plenty of time for them to inspect the stranger in question.
Tom and Harry were seated on a mountain springboard wagon drawn
by a pair of thin horses. Their driver, a boy of about eighteen,
sat on a tiny make